Re: "Packing on the Web" -- performance use cases / implications

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm talking about the use cases that .zip files satisfy, not that.  I
> don't know why separating these is a problem.
>

Looking at the cited use cases in [1]... 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 do not need
bundling and are *much* better handled by the UA fetching granular
resources based on the description in the package/manifest. In fact, even
for 2.4 it's not strictly necessary: the package contents can be downloaded
into a folder without forcing bundling within the package request. I think
we need to revisit the use cases and clarify their intent...

[1] http://w3ctag.github.io/packaging-on-the-web/#using-packages